Must have been a clutch of lizard eggs hatched recently. This little guy is maybe four centimeters long, much smaller than in the enlarged photo you'll get if you click on this one. She wouldn't stay still long enough for me to put any kind of marker nearby. Right up by my front door, though.
Here are the Mexican sunflowers PLS gave me, greeting the sun.
And those nice little purple flowers I was pulling out under the mistaken impression that they were Russian thistle. 